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Re: A website hosted on a floppy disk (Be patient while it's loading)

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Post by colonwqbang »

colejohnson66 wrote: post #34
colonwqbang wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is exactly what Linux will do by default, without any special setup or config. Everything goes through the buffer cache. In fact, you would have to do active work to disable the caching.

Don’t all modern operating systems have a RAM-based disk cache?

I don't have deep knowledge of any other operating system. But I'm sure you are right.

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Post by hooby »

omgmajk wrote: post #50
teitoklien wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Surely a website that doesn’t exist but is left to the imagination of the reader Is the final stop

I have one like that. It contains pictures of cats.

Pictures of Schroedinger cats, I presume?

Re: A website hosted on a floppy disk (Be patient while it's loading)

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Post by hooby »

zfxfr wrote: post #43

Unsurprisingly I got a 503 error. I'll be more curious how many requests it can handle if it is really only on floppy (no caching etc..). 1.44 MB is plenty of space to host a nice website !

Are you asking about how many requests per second - or about how many request per floppy (before that needs replacing)? ;)

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Post by phh »

omgmajk wrote: post #10

Reminds me of that blog/magazine who went fully solar and stopped thinking about uptime. What a time to be alive. https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/

Which reminds me of a catastrophe movie, where all countries launched all their nukes, and earth became radioactively poisoned. A submarine survived, looking for signs of life, and they received sporadic messages like "the whales are fine" (which made sense to them since whales live under-water). They went to the origin of the signal, only to find a computer turning on and off because of its solar panel, sending messages at every boot.

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Post by Shamii »

Linux had page cache for a while. Not sure what this should show.

Independently can we pls stop using floppy disks to show how slow, fast, small or big something else is in comparison?

I haven't had a floppy disk in my hands for 19 years and they were shitty 2000 already.

I also guess even less people are even getting anything out of floppy disk comparisons.

Re: A website hosted on a floppy disk (Be patient while it's loading)

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Post by dncornholio »

dang wrote: post #52
dncornholio wrote: post #5

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" Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something. " https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Agreed! Next time I will gather more arguments.
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